Mobility and the spatial spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Belgium

Abstract

Given that social interactions drive the spread of infectious diseases amongst humans, one anticipates that human mobility in Belgium affected the spread of covid-19 during both 2020 "waves". Measures against this spread in turn influenced mobility patterns. In this study, we analyse and mutually compare time series of covid-19-related data and mobility data across Belgium's 43 arrondissements (NUTS 3 level). First, we confirm that overall mobility did in fact change significantly over the consecutive stages of the pandemic. So doing, we define a quantity that represents the degree of mobility between two